FLAIMYST Metal nazar battu kirti mukh  (6 inch X 4 inch, Multicolor)

The Kirthimukha is a protector deity, a threshold guardian belonging to one of the two oldest groups of Cthonic deities in India: the Yakshas from the word Yakshamam – we shall protect. The other group is the Nagas – serpent energies of the earth. These are easily the oldest and perhaps original gods of India, predating the Vedas. Even the Buddha was at birth taken to the shrine of his clan’s guardian Yaksha – Sakha Vardhana. Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism had to totally assimilate Yakshas and Nagas before they gained wide acceptance. “Kirthimukha is the male aspect of nature, for while the earth is female, vegetation is masculine. … Europe knew him as Dionysius, then the Green Man or John Barleycorn, while the Sufi mystics still experience him as Khwaja Khidur – a gigantic being, a spiritual initiator and mentor, whose footsteps sprout vegetation… the special meaning of this card is forgiveness. Let go of grudges and hate, and let time take care of the rest.” “To recognise Kirtimukha is to grow up, to have an adult understanding and acceptance of the universe, not a child’s fantasy. In Jungian terms, Kirtimukha is a visibilization, a personification of the Shadow (or some aspects of it). Kirtimukha is thus a threshold guardian to maturity, to the deepening of experience which is called wisdom.